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New immunotherapy drug could help some cancer patients avoid surgery

A new immunotherapy drug could help some cancer patients avoid surgery.

According to the results of a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients who took this drug were cancer-free after two years.

Dr. Andrea Cercek, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, joins us to discuss.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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